01/1991 - 08/1993 (Contract)	Trove Software Yarm County Durham
Job title : Analyst Programmer

Within Trove Software I was a member of the three-man development team during the initial development of Trove for Manuals.

I was responsible for creating conversion tools to take word processor documents in their native format and convert them into the proprietary rich ASCII format used by Trove. This work was carried out in COBOL, without access to any technical literature regarding the native format of the files to be converted.

The conversion tools had to allow support of tables (using standard MS-DOS line drawing characters) along with any layout features such as columns, tab settings and indentation. The tools that I created dealt with WordPerfect 5.1 files DisplayWrite4 files.

Whilst working for Trove I was also responsible for the development of a proprietary installation process, using PkZip.